Motherhood plays a large role within this novel, from Christopher’s grandmother who embodies a completely nurturing character and is inadvertently the relationship that motivates him to murder, to Kitty who left her daughter Clare behind in America with her father and through this action caused her daughter to question why she was left behind and who that made her. Motherhood also intertwines in Clare’s life again because of her desire to be a mother herself, and then her discovery that she could no longer conceive after a miscarriage. But the passage does not specifically speak about a mother that the reader has read about in depth, and in its ambiguity it prompts the readers to think of another mother read about in passing with similar
Motherhood plays a large role within this novel, from Christopher’s grandmother who embodies a completely nurturing character and is inadvertently the relationship that motivates him to murder, to Kitty who left her daughter Clare behind in America with her father and through this action caused her daughter to question why she was left behind and who that made her. Motherhood also intertwines in Clare’s life again because of her desire to be a mother herself, and then her discovery that she could no longer conceive after a miscarriage. But the passage does not specifically speak about a mother that the reader has read about in depth, and in its ambiguity it prompts the readers to think of another mother read about in passing with similar